Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world's sins as well as our own, there is plenty of confusion still. But we move forward...
...ecumenical movement is, by the Grace of God, a seeking by all the churches of what cannot be had in any other way-a new manifestation of Christ to His church and so to the world which He died to save...
Main Theme. During the first week 15 discussion groups will consider the main theme, "Christ-the Hope of the World," then gather in plenary session to formulate a message. Agreement will come hard; theologians are roughly divided between orthodox eschatologists (mainly European) who see the Christian hope as Christ's Second Coming at world's end, and the more liberal and activist brand (mainly in the U.S.) who hope for Christ's help in the here...
...Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches," which will probably concentrate on the points of recognition between church bodies of differing traditions...
Author Monelli's book is never better than in the account of the last days of Mussolini and his doxie. Utterly defeated, universally despised, the sick and whipped dictator began mouthing extracts from a Life of Jesus and discovering "surprising analogies between his own fate and that of Christ." Too vain to surrender to the British, too indecisive to accept German protection, Mussolini blundered into the waiting hands of his bitterest enemies, the Italian partisans. By the time they dragged him, in pouring rain, to the wall against which he and Claretta were to be shot, he was much...